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  1. Greater Austronesian Settlement of New Guinea

    How can we create a situation where the New Guinea lowlands are dominated by Austronesian cultures, and what would the consequences of such a change be? Ideally, how can we create a scenario where the New Guinea lowlands are home to Malay peoples and incorporated into the Malay...

  2. When is Roman Germania Viable?

    So, it seems like the general consensus on this board is that Germania around the year 0AD was too undeveloped and sparsely inhabited to be a viable region for Roman conquest and colonization. I am not entirely convinced of this notion, but that is really a subject for another thread. So we'll...

  3. Railway Gauges

    So, in certain discussions the subject of railway gauge comes up and people talk about the pros and cons of particular gauges and their relative value versus other gauges. However, I don't know enough about railroads to understand why one gauge would be better or worse than another. The benefits...

  4. AHC/WI: Dr. Thomas Allinson's Ideas Gain Wider Acceptance

    Dr. Thomas Allinson was a British doctor who in the 1880's developed something of an alternative to some of the practices of mainstream medicine. His ideas seem strikingly modern, especially considering he developed them in the 1880's. Allinson advocated things like exercise and bathing as a...

  5. Why the Spatha?

    Simple question: Why did the Late Roman infantry adopt the spatha over the gladius? I understand that the infantry transitioned to using the spear as their primary weapon but it seems to me that that would be a case for keeping the gladius as a secondary weapon, not adopting the spatha instead...

  6. WI: Chile takes the Chincha Islands

    Pretty strait forward; what if the Chileans had demanded and obtained the cession of the Chincha Islands from Peru, in addition to their other gains, at the end of the War of the Pacific? Chile unquestionably had the capacity to seize the islands and I don't think Peru was in a position to...

  7. Earlier Use Of Dye Marked Shells

    During WWII all of the major navies used colored dye markers in their shells to differentiate the shell splashes of different ships. From The Royal Navy introduced the use of dye from late 1942 after they acquired it from the French who developed their system during the 30's. However, the US was...

  8. What Happened to the Warship Projects Board?

    So there was a discussion forum about never-built warships that was truly sublime in terms of information. The many of the members were published authors of books discussing naval history and there was a great deal of original material from archives posted. Unfortunately, the website seems to...

  9. AHC/WI: Supreme Court Does Not Establish Judicial Review

    What it says on the can. What if the doctrine of judicial review had never been established by the Supreme Court of the United States. The POD can be whatever you'd like. Personally, I don't think butterflying Marbury v. Madison would be sufficient. Judicial review would still have been...

  10. WI: Byzantine Victory at Yarmouk

    What if the Rashidun forces had been defeated at Yarmouk? Obviously the implications depend on the kind of victory. If it's only a minor defeat for the Muslims than history probably progresses similarly to OTL. However, what would be the ramifications of a decisive Byzantine victory? At this...

  11. Looking For Primers On Asian History...

    I'm looking for books (or websites but I'd rather the depth of information available in a book) that give a good introduction to Asian history specifically on Japan's Sengoku era and China during the Red Turban Rebellions/Fall of the Yuan/Rise of the Ming. Anyone able to help?

  12. WI: No US New Navy

    What if the US never built the "New Navy" from the 1880's? After the Civil War the US navy was allowed to decay to a pitiful state. Most of the navy's ships were old, worn down, and obsolete. There was a small attempt to remedy this after Virginius Affair in 1873 prompted the US to order the...

  13. WI: Fritz Got the Monkey; King Alexandar Lives

    So, this has been brought up before but none of those threads have gotten past 2-3 posts. Lets try to make this one better. So, King Alexandar of Greece was king from 1917 to 1920. He was killed when his dog (named Fritz) got into a fight with a domestic barbary macaque. Alexandar tried to...

  14. Early Semiautomatic Rifles

    So in 1913 the French army adopted the A6 Meunier rifle as a replacement for the 1886 Lebel. The Meunier was a semiautomatic rifle and chambered for 7mm ammunition that was significantly more powerful than the Lebel's 8mm. However, WW1 intervened before the rifle could be brought into full...

  15. WI: Apis dies in 1903

    What if Dragutin Dimitrijević, commonly known as Apis, were killed in 1903 during the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga. IOTL Apis was part of the group of officers that stormed the palace but was shot three times in the initial exchange of fire with the sentries and nearly bled to...

  16. Admiralty M-N Scheme Submarine Detection Device

    So on the wiki page for the Admiralty M-N scheme towers there is a throw-away reference to them being equipped with a device to magnetically detect the presence of a submarine. This piqued my interest as I've never seen anything else about this device and as far as I can tell submarine detection...

  17. AHC: Make the Caproni Ca.60 Fly

    Have the Caproni Ca.60 be successfully flown and at least a few built and used commercially. I mean just look at! If ever there was a plane that needed Alternate History this is it. Here's the wiki article on it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.60

  18. Would Japan Join?

    Simple question; Would Japan have entered WW1 if Britain stayed neutral? Why or why not? I know that Japan coveted Germany's Pacific territories and seized the chance to take them but I don't know if that would be enough to cause them to join on their own. Also, I assume that Japan would be...

  19. AHC/WI: Paraguay wins the Paraguayan War

    The Paraguayan War was incredibly devastating to its namesake country. Estimates vary as to how many people were killed but 60% of the population seems to be a reasonable figure. The question is how could Paraguay win the war and defeat the Triple Alliance? I think winning the Battle of...

  20. WI: Greco-Turkish War in 1914

    So I've been reading about the lead up to World War I and it seems like everything I read has some off-hand mention that the contemporary consensus was that war between Greece and Turkey would happen by the end of 1914. However, I haven't found anything that actually spends more than two...
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